Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Compare and contrast this Prime Minister's historic agreement with national cabinet in December with the Leader of the Opposition's first budget as health minister in 2014. Everyone remembers that he tried to abolish bulk-billing altogether. He tried to jack-up medicines. They might not remember he also tried to cut $50 billion from hospitals in a glossy, blue budget—

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